Picture of an SCA officer demonstrating water quality monitoring equipment to science teachers at the launch of the HSC Biology: Water Quality online resource.

SCA staff demonstrate water quality monitoring technology to teachers at the launch of the HSC Biology online resource.

The Public Sector Employment Legislation Amendment Act 2006 amended the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 by establishing the Government Service of New South Wales. It provided for the employment of the former staff of certain government agencies within various divisions of the service in the service of the Crown.

As a consequence, the Sydney Catchment Authority Division of the Government Service (SCA Division) was established. The SCA Division provides personnel services to the SCA to enable it to carry out its statutory functions. The Chief Executive is the Division Head and exercises employer functions in relation to Division staff.

Under these arrangements, the SCA Division is a ‘special purpose service entity’. A ‘special purpose service entity’ is a service entity ‘that provides personnel services to a single statutory corporation where the service entity has no functions other than employment functions.’ As a result, staff are now employed by the NSW Government and the SCA Division is required to produce separate financial reports.

The annual report for a statutory corporation with a special purpose service entity must include three sets of financial reports. These comprise the financial report of the parent entity, the special purpose service entity and the economic (consolidated) entity.

This annual report for the SCA Division is in two sections. Section one reports on the personnel services that the government provides to the Division. Section two contains the Division’s financial reports required by Treasury.

 

Successful business -
Goal 4 of the Sydney Catchment Authority Corporate Plan

The NSW Government requires the Sydney Catchment Authority Division of the Government Service (SCA Division), as a statutory corporation, to include details of the human resources services and employee related matters of the organisation in its annual report.

The SCA Division employs around 300 staff who are essential to the successful delivery of our services. The SCA Division aims to provide an equitable work environment for all employees, and to attract and retain the most suitably qualified people.

The SCA applied a broad range of employee related strategies and programs throughout the year.

Highlights

  • Established a new Occupational Health and Safety Management System and started to review, upgrade and establish new procedures across all occupational health and safety processes
  • Completed several organisational realignments
  • Upgraded the SCA’s Human Resources Information System during the year to align with Australian Taxation Office requirements.